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4 CjicjHonungXletus Morning News Building. Savannah, G& TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER Vt 7. 18ST. registered at the Pott Office in Savannah. The Morning News is published every day m rbe year, aisl is nerved to subscribers in the city, bv newsdealers and carriers, on their own at. count, at 25 cents a week. Si 00a month, $5 00 (or six months and *lO 00 for one year. The Morning News, by mail, one month. $1 00; three months, $2 50; six months, $5 00: one vear, $lO 00. The Morning News, hr/ mail, six time* a week 'without Sunday issue!, three months, $2 00; six months. $-1 00 one ' ear. $8 00. The Morning News. Tri weekly. Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thura days and 'Saturdays three mouths, $1 25: six months. $2 50; one year. $5 00 The Sunday News, by mad. one year. $2 00. The 'Veeslt News, tn/ moil, one year. $1 25. Subscriptions payable in advance.. Remit by postal older, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders This paper is kept on file and advertising rates tnay he ascertained at the office of the Ameri can Newspaper Publishers’ Association, 104 I>triple Court, New York City. letters and telegrams should _be addressed “Morning News. Savannah, Ua. ' Advertising rates made known on application. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings— Georgia Hussars: Commercial Guano Company. Spec: ai. Notices—As to Bills Against the Brit ish Steamship Wimbledon; As to Crew of Brit ish Steamship Hawarder.; As to Closing Store, Oollat Bros. Steamship Schedule— Baltimore Steamship Company. Pianos and Organs— L. &B.S.M. H. Cheap Coh en Advertisements—Help Want ed; Employment Wanted; For Kent; For Sale; stolen; Miscellaneous. Auction Sales— Continued Sale of Groceries by D. R. Kennedy To the Public—W. J. Burton. Savannah Steam Laundry— M. Prager For Doboy, etc— Steamer Pope Catlin. The reassuring reports as to the condition of the Crown Prince of Germany by his physicians do not seem to be worth much. It is not unlikely that the aged Emperor will outlive his oldest son. Gen. Pryor and Capt. Black, counsel for the Anarchists, exprejs the utmost con fidence in getting their case before the United States Supreme Court. Lawyers on the other side are just as confident that they will not. Lawyers, like doctors, disagree, but for a different reason—they are paid for it. The report of General Secretary Litch man, of the Knights of Labor, it is said, will show a decrease in membership of the order from 1,000,000 to a little over 500,000 in the last year. This decrease is in large measure due to numerous ill-ad vised and unsuccess ful strikes. Wisdom learned from expe rience may put the order on the up-grade again. Jay Gould has caused to be announced on Wall street that on account of threatened ossification of the heart be is about to go to Europe for an indefinite stay, but Wall street will not believe him. It knows his heart has lung been as hard os bone, without apparent effect upon his health, and believes he is preparing some plan to scoop his enemies. Wall street is probably right. The friends of Rector Glazebrook in Geor gia must have read the evidence brought out against him in the recent investigation at Durham, Mass., with great sorrow. Though they may believe in his innocence, the evidence is of such a character as must cripple his usefulness as a clergyman. Dur ing his stay in Georgia Mr. Glazebrook was one of the most honored and beloved minis ters of his denomination. At a Maryland fair a marriage ceremony was performed on the grounds, and the good-looking and good-natured bride per mitted the minister and several gentlemen to give her congratulatory kisses. Imagine their sensations when they discovered that they had saluted the office boy of one of their number. They would no doubt have rather kissed a horse, and ought to sue the responsible party for damages. No jury would deny them. The Supreme Court of New York has decided thut the annulment of the charter of the Broadway Surface Railroad Com pany only destroyed the company; it did not destroy its estate, of which the fran chise to operate a railroad on Broadway was a part. This decision was necessary to protect creditors of the company. It seems there is no way to prevent the building of a road against which a large majority of the people protest. If Henry George doesn’t get a rousing big vote for Secretary of State he will be the most disappointed politician New York ever saw. Ho has been met by large audiences at every api>ointment, and now expresses a “fear - ’ that he may be elected. But he is probably unduly excited. His doctrines are new, he is himself an interest ing person, and men were attracted prin cijially by curiosity in attending his meet ings. Comparatively few will indorse his radical opinions at the ballot box. The Arizona Star, published away off ou the edge of civilization, seems to keep up with the drift of public opinion. In ad vocating the nomination of Gen. Miles by the Republicans for President, it says he is the only man who can “make a respectable race against Cleveland. ” It wants its party to escape a disgraceful rout, and periiajM Gen. Miles could do as much to prevent it as anyone. He would be a stronger candidate than the leaders of the party, each weak ened by the jealousy of the others. Congressman Kelley, of Pennsylvania, has again been talking for publication about the South, which he calls the “K 1 Dorado of the future.” Mr. Kelley is, per haps, the foremost defender of the protec tive tariff, to the effect* of which the South owes a great deal of her poverty, but he is doing his best to help her in his own wav, and his efforts "vill probably prove effective to a certain deg roe. Hut he is a more effec tive ageut for the Republican irty in the Southern iron region* than for the Southern boom in the North. Mrs. Lucy Parsons, wife of the Anarchist, Is not the delimit hater of everything repre senting law and order that she was when lecturing about the country a few mouths ago. She is now quiet and subdued, end wlicn before the Police Court in Chicago a day or two since for distributing Parsons’ address on the street* in violation of a city oadinance, her demeanor and words were so iwthetic that tears came to the eyes of the police officers who have most cause to hate her husband Hhe, jtcrhui**. only begins u> rmlia* that he stands in the shallow of the gallows, and that her own violent harangue* have made the execution of his MMileta • more 'wiaix The-Grand Army of the Republic. The Grand Army of the Republic parades through the streets of St. 1 aiuls to-day. The city has made preparations to welcome it? visitors in such a manner that they can not doubt its heartiness. Miles of streets are handsomely decorated and triumphal arches have been erected across the road ways along which the veterans will march. Everything will be done to show honor to the defenders of the Union in a State of which the preponderating sentiment during the war was probably against the cause for which they fought. The number of veterans present at the Grand Encampment will, in all likelihood, exceed that on any former occasion, and for certain reasons the meeting will be of greater importance than any of its prede cessors. The society ls nominally non-partisan, but of late months there have been manifesta tions of hostility to the present administra tion on the part of both officers and men that lead to the belief that if it ever had that character it has lost it. The Presi - dent’s order in relation to the captured Con federate battle-flags was made the occasion of the coarsest abuse of him by men who stand high in the councils of the so ciety. It was with something like amazement that Southern people hoard this outbreak. They were perfectly indifferent whether the government kept the flags, destroyed them or returned them, and they could not understand why so much value was attached to them. They now begin to see that the incident was seized upon to vent the anger aroused by other actions of the President, and to make polit ical capital for the Republican party. The President showed by his numerous vetoes of unworthy private pension bills, and of the dependent pension bill, that in his opinion the government had gone as far as it should in extending aid to those who had served in its armies. That aid was al ready on a scale never before ap proached in magnitude by any nation, the pensioners numbering in the neighborhood of 500,000, and the money appropriated for their benefit amounting to about $75,01X1,000 a year. But this enor mous sum, almost as much as the great ar my of Germany costs, does not satisfy the appetite of the old soldiers, which grows sharper in proportion as it is fed, and there seems to be a disposition among them to make their organization the means of fright ening the politicians into granting any de mands, however extravagant. The policy to which the administration is committed has made them its enemies. A great majority of the army posts which have taken action on the question have demanded the passage of the dependent pension bill, and a resolution to that effect will doubtless be put before the convention in St. Louis. It may be that even larger demands will be made. A convention of ex-prisoners was held in Chicago last week, and a bill was prepared for introduction in Congress pro viding that all those confined in Confeder ate prisons ninety days shall receive a quarter of the full pension, 130 days one half, 270 days three-quarters, and beyond that a full pension. The bill also allows each prisoner $2 for every day he was in captivity. Drafts of the bill were sent to every Grand Army post in the country, and a committee appointed to submit the meas ure to the Grand Encampment for Its in dorsement. A resolution demands the pas sage of this bill by Congress in the “name of loyalty and patriotism.” The manner in which the society deals with this and kindred propositions at Bt. Louis will fix its character and purposes in the minds of the people. If it determine to become a closely organized machine to ex tort pensions, as certain things have indi cated, it will be a source of real danger. It will find ready allies in those interested in keeping up or increasing the pres ent rate of taxation, who will, under the pretense of gratitude to old soldiers, serve their own private in terests. The surplus will be speedily got ten rid of, and a hole cut in the bottom of the Treasury’s strong box so large that the most industrious efforts of the customs col lectors cannot keep it full. The South has a peculiar interest in this question. She is poor, while the other sec tions of the country aro rich. Yet she pays a very largo proportion of the taxes. Of the immense amount paid out in pensions, practically none comes back to her. This is one of the jwnalties of defeat, and there has been no complaint heretofore that the burden it imposed was heavy, but it can easily he made so heavy that it will be crushing. It is to be hoped that the result of the meeting at St. Louis will be to put the Grand Army hack in the j>osition it ought to occupy—a society for the preservation of the patriotic memories of the war and the stimulation of patriotic sentiments among the young. Mr. Powderly’s plan of reorganization of the Knights of Labor, an outline of which was recently printed, is not meeting with general favor among members of the order. While it removes what lias heretofore been one of the chief causes of discord, by allow ing the formation of trade assemblies, ob jection is made that members of such assem blies will be doubly taxed, while the assemblies themselves will have no repre sentation in the General Assembly of the order. What with the opposition of the Socialist element to Mr. Rowderly and the struggle over the details of the now consti tution, the Minneapolis convention is likely to have a stormy session. It is believed, however, that the conservative element is largely in the majority, and will save the order from wreck. Tlie Paris correspondent of tho Chicago Tribune gives anew story of tlie great wheat sjH-culation in Kan Francisco which ended so disastrously for the Nevada Bank. The gist of it is that Gen. Boulanger, late War Minister of France, was a partner of Mackny in the speculation, his part of the programme being to cause au advance in the price of wheat by bringing about a great war scare after Mackay had cornered tlie market. The story is probably apocry phal. Gamblers do desperate things, but a responsible Minister would hardly run tho risk of plunging his country into a bloody war, imperiling even it* existence, for the suke of pecuniary gain, however great. Prince Bismarck has just celebrated tbe twenty-fifth anniversary of his elevation to the premiership of the Prussian kingdom. Few statesmen can look back over a career so eminently successful as has been his. He lias suffered few checks and no defeats in diplomacy or war. lie has made the em pire he consolidated the greatest military power Of the world, but lie ha* embittered its relations with it- neighbor* aud will leave it, should his career and soon, a logo, y wf wars yet tube 1 ought. THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1887. THE GREAT YACHT RACE TO-DAY. Something About the Thistle and the Volunteer The first race of the Scotch yacht Thistle and the American yacht 'Volunteer for the America’s cup comes off to-Jay. A great deal of interest in the match has been manifested in all parts of the country, and the follow ing information concerning the yachts and their designers may prove of general interest: The Thistle was conceived in secret, shaped in secret, and launched in a shroud. She has been the cause of more fanciful sketching and more conjectural writing than the Flying Dutchman’s ghostly craft. There is no international copyright in yachts; and her designer wished to enjoy a monopoly of his own originality. There is nothing else afloat that exactly resembles tiie Thistle. But Mr. Watson did not cur tain his ideal from possible American imi tators only. He wished to screen it from the whole world, and even more particularly from British rivals. As she sits on the water it is easy to see that she is a trim and handsome boat Tbet-e is a good shear, the lines running in a graceful sweep from knightheods to taffrail. She is said to sit very low in the water, but the yachting editor of the London Sports man measured her least freeboard, and found it 4 feet 6 inches, which is not low. The fact is, probably, that being long and beautifully modelled, she does hot show how high she is, for it is likely that she is as long asthe full estimate of 105 feet. Amer icans will hope that the Sportsman male no error, and that her bow, as some say it is, is very high out of water, for a high bow is not a good bow in working to wind ward. The mast of the Thistleis stepped well forward. It will Is; remembered that the Genestas was stepped so that it appeared to be exactly in the middle of the deck. Judg ing from the rake of the Thistle’s stern post and the cutting away of her bow, it is said that her keel is very short and that the bal last is carried abaft the mast, or pretty near where a sloop's centreboard would be. Under the water her sides rise up with a gradual sweep out, and are not straight up and down like those of the Galatea. Her cross section is said to be very like that of the Vandaura, built by the same designer. Her bows do not flare out, however, as Watson’s earlier boats did, the beams forward rising very straight on each side. It will thus happen that when she plunges down over a heavy swell with her nose rooting up the foam, the water will offer little if any more resistance than when she is on a level keel. She will split her way through the waves instead of crushing them out of the way. Her counter, too, is much larger than the Genesta’s showing how sho fines away aft. beneath the water. Of the construction of the hull we know that it is done as well as Scotch workmen can do it. There is a collision bulkhead for ward, and there arc partial bulkheads abreast the rigging and wherever excep tional strength ls needed. There are extra keelsons and frames, too. The has very little rail. Her spars are very lofty. As she floated beside the Genesta it was noticed that her truck was from 15 to 18 feet above that of the craft that was defeated here. Her de signer, Mr. Watson, found that the New York Yacht Club rules did not tax sail area very much, and took advantage of this de fect by building a boat that could carry on. Her boom is said to be 4>£ feet longer than the Mayflower’s, and 2>£ feet longer than the Volunteer’s. With the enormous hoist which the photograph indicates, she must carry a mainsail that will make her sailors sweat, and it may make the owners of the Yankee sloops sweat too. Her spars are of Oregon pine. The following table gives the known di mensions of the three crack British cutters and the two American sloops: Wafer Line. Beam. Depth. Ft. In. Ft. In. Ft. In. Thistle 80.40 20.00 14. 1 Irex 87.00 15. 1 11. 3 Genesta 85. 0 15.00 11. !) Mayflower 85. 8 23. 0 9. 0 Volunteer 85.10 ‘23. 2 10.00 The figures show that the Thistle must have an enormous displacement, but her record in the season’s races on the other side shows that great displacement is not incom patible with speed. Mr. G. L. Watson, whose masterpiete the Thistle is, has been making fly irs ever since he began designing yachts. His first boat, like the Boston eatlioat, the first venture of Mr. Burgess, was a winner. Mr. Watson had set up shop as a naval architect in 1874. At that time the Pearl, a flve-tonner, had carried the whip at lier truck so long that no one dared to make a match with her. Mr. Watson turned out the Clothilda. Her owner, proud of his first yacht auu fearless, as all new yachtsmen arc apt to be. accepted the Pearl’s standing challenge, which had for a long time humiliated the owners of small yachts off the British coast. To the astonishment of all the Clothilde boat the Pearl easily. The Vril and the Freka followed the Clothilde from Mr. W a (son’s loft, and proved to lie winners as the Clothikle had been. The Madge first introduced Mr. Watson to American yachtsmen by coming over here and whipping everything she met. Tho Vandaura, tlie Marjorie, and tho yawl Wendur were able to s(x>ak for him before the new wonder, the Thistle, was lau tied led. Mr. Watson is a writer as well as a designer, and by his contributions to technical journals has done much to teach British yachtsmen that when determining the ton nage of a vessel it is more nearly accurate to measure her depth with a (ape lino than to estimate her depth by calling it one half of her width. Mr. Watson is well known in his own country also as a designer of steam yachts mid merehunt vessels. Tho Thistle’s iron work, when she wns in the dry ihx'k, looked much neater and ap peared to be better thau that of the Volun teer's, but upon closer inspection it was plainly seen that there was a covering of some kind over the hull, forming a sort of skin as it were. Upon examination along the water-line of the yacht some fractures in this skin or shell, covering the iron work were observed, showing not only the rivets and joints formed by adjacent plates, but that this cement, as (.'apt, Barr called it. was quite thick; something like a sixteenth of an inch or more. It is evidently a secret preparation and something new. in our waters, as yachts heretofore have generally had a covering merely of copper or of some good anti-fric tion paint for their wet surface, or possibly some pot lead, which is generally applied just before a race by our yachtsmen. This new application is to lessen tlie yacht’s fric tional resistance, as the fraction, which of late lias been found to be enormous, de pends upon tlie surface and sjieed of the vessel. The Volunteer was launched at the ship yard o* Pusey & Jones, in Wilmington, Del, early in the morning on June an, Al though an untimely hour, there wa* a crowd of several hundred on hand to see her take tho water, showing the interest the public take in the new sloop. Uer length is lUli feet over all, ami her depth is 10 feet 4 inches. Her width is 23 fWt a indies, anil tier length on the water lino 85 feet 9 inches. Klio draws aisout 10 feet <*f water. The new sloop vuries a good deal more from tlie model of the Mayflower than these figures indicate. The keel is more like a rocker than that of the Mayflower, rising gradually from a [sunt just abaft her '■outre to the stern post, and rising very rapidly forward to the stem. In other words, her forefoot is cut away more thau the Mayflower's. Although not quite so wide over all as the Mayflower, tin* now sloop was d'**ignsd to b * more stable, her width at tlie water line being quits a* great a* that of the older sloop, while her depth is greater, and, in consequents* ,f having tier tiullii*'. ad in her low down kis-1, her ■ •••idi-w of gravity i* lower. Her innst is set well uft. differing hi (Ids parWi-tilnr considerably from the Thistle it is said. Tb<* Vohnitoer has mom free boxed limn the Msyllower, but, i m (Jan. Pains cal 'ad public etteotloa list year to the r laidl ijf effect of Irts'lsiurd o.i a v edit sailing isooo-Umiioi, uu one uiud fuai that the Volunteer Is too h’gb. The lower [rt of the Volunteer’s hull is leaner than the Mayflower’s. She is cut away in the gar boards, as the shipbuilders say, by which they mean that the lower part of the letter V. which may represent the outline of a cross section, is hollowed out very much. In fact, her keel projects down so straight and deep from the flaring part of the hull that she would prove a very weather ly boat without any centreboard. Gen. Charles J. Paine, the owner of the Volunteer, has, by his patriotism and liber ality in defending the America’s cup, won a world-wide reputation. He is commonly spoken of as the greatest of American yachtsmen. Certainly no one has done so much to earn the regard of American gen tlemen sailors and gentlemen sportsmen generally. When the first of the ro-ent efforts to cap ture the America’s cup was made by the Genesta’s challenge. Gen. Paine was a lib eral contributor to the fund with which the Puritan was built. He had had a good deal of experience in racing on the yacht Hal cyon, with which he won many victories, and bis judgment contributed much to the success of the Puritan. But the General was satisfied that a greater yacht than the Halcyon could be built, and so was Mr. Burgess, Between the two the plans of the Mayflower were evolved, and their faith was justified by her superior sailing qualities. Gen. Paine is a typical Yankee, though not of the kind of Yankees that one sees in caricatures. He is a Boston lawyer by pro fession. He Is a graduate of Harvard. He won his title of General during the late war, having been promoted through various grades to the rank of Major-Gen eral. He is quiet and reserved in his man ner and plain in his dress, wholly avoiding the gaudy displays affected by many aina teur sailors. While ether designers of yachts have many friends and supporters who are ready to back them with orders, and in con troversy, in the mind of the American pub lic generally Mr. E lward Burgees is the leading yacht modeler of the world. It will be conceded abroad that he is the leading designer of America. If one may judge from the reports received regarding tiie betting on the international races there is a good deal of doubt even among British yachtmon as to his position when compared with Mr. Watson. They are not bucking Watson over there so enthusiastically as they wore before they heard from Mr. Burgees’ last work—the Volunteer. Mr. Burgess had the good fortune to be a resident of Boston, the home at present of the most liberal yacht builders of the coun try. He first attracted the attention of yachtsmen there by designing a cat boat that ran away out of sight from every other cat boat in the harbor. In consequence of her success he was engaged by Mr. Forbes, the owner of the Puritan, and his associates, to design a boat to compete with the Pris cilla, which was then building, for the honor of defending the America’s cup. Yachts men remember with pleasure the interest the new white sloop created in 1885. But even when she had won first place there were not a few who spoke of her as a lucky hit, and to perfect his reputation Mr. Bur gess hail to design a lietter one. He did this the next year to the satisfaction of every body save a few nan Guns of other boats and designers. The Mayflower was un doubtedly the best yacht afloat last year. CURRENT COMMENT. Must be Free from Saloon Influence. From the Few York World (Dem.) The Democratic party cannot afford even to seem to be subservient to the liquor interest. The increase of intemperance by the unneces sary multiplication and imperfect regulation ol drinking places is as great an evil socially and morally as the influence of the salocn is politi cally when it becomes a potent factor in party management. The Mail Service Should be in Private Hands. FVmn the .Vein York World (Dem.) The only serious mistake made by the framers of our constitution was in permitting the Fed eral government to control even the mails. We might or we might not have a cheaper mail service were letters carried by private compa-’ nies working in co-operation with tin- railroads; but we should certainly have a much swifter ser vice. Were mails carried by postal companies, it would not take two or three days to get a let ter from New York to Chicago It would more likely have been long since shot through a pueu matic tube, a postal pipe line, with such expedi tion that an answer could be received on the day of mailing. BRIGHT BITS. Thf. Framingham Gazette gives currency to the rather apocryphal story that Revivalist Sam Jones has lieen offered $5,000 a night for a course of lectures. And yet there are people who will go on serving the devil at starvation wages when the service of God brings such fat stipem.*.— Marlborough Time . Some Lincoln gentlemen have disagreed as to the rel ative merits of their babies, and will sub mit the matter to arbitration. The umpire of a base liall game will begin to think that he leads a secure and iieaeeful life when he sees the refer.s' of this baby show dodging the parents whose babies got left.— Lincoln Journal. I wish things was shared out evenor," said a Cincinnati boy. watching the colored man at the house opposite washing the sidewalk. His fond mamma was about to command his sym path.v with the poor workingmen when’ he astonished her by adding with emphasis: “Then we could have a colored man and a hose!”— The Epoch. REon.An Customer (disposed to be facetious) —-Unoss you will have to trust me for the paper until t j-niorrow. Clerk—Oh, that's all right, sir. Customer Hut suppose I was killed between now aud to-morrow? Clerk—Well, the loss would not be much, sir. —Philadelphia Sens. “All I’ve got to say about the paper is that the editor is getting terribly dull,” said an old suliscriher. "You think the editor is getting dull, do you?” rejoined the occupant of the splint-bottomed editorial chair. "Yes, sir. ! do, most emphatietl'y." "Well, I'll call up the next scissors grinder that conics along.”— Merchant Traveler. Youno Simukins (who is spending his week’s vacation at a Saratoga hotel)—Waiter, for the fourth time will you bring me that Walter Sav. mistah, 1 hain t got no time ter fool wid you—‘deed I hain t. It's gettill' mighty late in de season, an' every minute's ob walne ter me. Ise got all 1 kin do ter tend ter my cash customers. Now don't bodder me no more an' I'll be ’sponsible fer yer week’s board.— Tid- Vita. A heave VAKHTun full of suds slipped off a Hester street tire escape tne other afternoon mid lauded, contents mid all. on the shoulder of a passing stranger. He picked himself up, pulled his trousers away from his skin to keep them from sticking, and remarked to a police man: "That uin’t so much of a hailstone, but durned f I ever see 'em come single afore.” "Where are you from?" asked the odirer "Brule City, Dakota." was the reply. -Tid Hits. "Dio von hear my sermon yesterday?" asked a Uncom clergyman of one of his congregation. “No; I'm sorry to say that I didn't go to church yesterday. What was your sermon about?" " Atsmt Joseph going down into Egypt to buy corn.” “Well, that may lie all right as a text, but if Joseph had read the official crop report he’d have gone to Nebraska for corn”— Sebraska Stair Journal. A shrewd and kindly old gentleman, who is an acute observer of lire, and who phrases the results of his observation* unil r-Ihs-i ions with a good deal of mrson -*s, w as recently e insulted by the anxious mother of one spoiled baby, in relation to works on pai-entul discipline. "Can you tell me," she said, "any real good treatise lor bringing up children? I want the verv liest." "The iiest that I know," the old gentleman re plied succinctly, “Im a family of six." Huston Courier. “What’s ihe nationality of t bein'" said a tall woman with a determined eye. um she isdnied her lurasol at I lie elephants 111 tbe circus shell recently cxudiiUsi at Sioux Falls "Aincmi, mum," replied the man in at ten dance. "Awful light colorej for coining from Africa, is*' ms to me." continued tlie determine*! e)<*d woman And sec here, y*in in* 1 tell Ilie own it* of ibis sbnw I Inti I ssv I flunk lliey'iegig a inl (lily p*N*r kg of camels ail of cm single humped e a* -■*is otp* When I ,n** !hJv. cash fur myseli aud 01 ??, lot tbe e illdnsi u> gel it, 1 us.* t i see lollVs biiiiip*i ■ aud leas ban rob ts'd off of ‘mu round in spots! You >ipt hull ciu n eat I buy hno.ro hell PERSONAL. Ex-Congressman Morrison says the strength of President Cleveland is constantly growing. Miss Murfree, the novelist, is staying in Boston, and is moreover engaged upon a long novel. I)r. Johnson once acknowledged that he never read Milton through until he waa obliged to do so in compiling his dictionary. Ex-Gov.Waij.er, of Conr.e 'ticut, is not coming home from London this month, as anticipated, but has postponed his trip "until October. Bessfjier's steel patents have brought him in $5,385,000 in royalties, besides what he has realised from sales" of the metal, and his part ners in the business have made fortunes. Robert Downing, the actor, is an educated athlete, and so is his manager, Joseph H. Mack. They have Inth lieen in practice all summer at Downing’s Pawtucket summer residence. Civil Service I Vjmission f.kJObi-rly informed a Western friend recently that he is thoroughly sick and tired of politics and place, and intends to resign and retire to pri vate life. Mas. Cleveland never drinks ehami>agne or any kind of wine. She always drinks apolTinaris water when at dinner where there is wine. In fact, she seldom drinks any kind of water except apollinaris. The latest spiritualistic wonder is a Mrs. Por ter, of Cincinnati. She becomes a first-rate me dium only when blindfolded. Then she Ls ena bled to tell a subject all abodt his past and pres ent, and make predictions for the future. Gov Thayer, of Nebraska, is visiting friends in Bellingham, Mass. The present is the occa sion of Gov. Thayer’s first Eastern visit in twenty years. He went West at the close of the war a poor young man and now returns a dis tinguished and honored one. C'oNsri. Baker reports to the State Depart ment that Terra del Fuego contains valuable farming lands, forests and mineral deposits. The natives are athletic and comparatively in telligent. The Argentine government is prepar ing to colonize and develop the islands. A telegram to the Baltimore American, from Norfolk, says: ”Itis staled, upon what seems to lie good authority, that ex-Gov. Jarvis, of North Carolina, our .Minister to Brazil, w ill soon resign his position and return home. It is surmised that he will take an active part in the political canvass next year, having in view the position of United States Senator, to succeed Senator Ran som. Justice Benjamin D. Magruder, who deliv ered the opinion of the Supreme Court of Illi nois, in the Anarchists’ case, and has thereby linked his name with one of the greatest cases of history, is e. Memphis, Tenn., man. He went to Chicago about the beginning of the war. and has risen by force of modest merit, untiring in dustry and great ability to the highest honors in his profession Near Invermark, on laird Dalhousie’s estate, a fountain was some years ago erected to com memorate a visit iiu to the place by the Queen. It bears this ineription, in gold letters. ’’Rest, stranger, on this lovely scene, ami drink and pray lor Scotland’s Queen—Victoria.” A High lander was shocked one morning to read the following addenda, traced in a bold hand, sug gestive of the London tourist, immediately un derneath theorigiual: “We'll pray for Queen Victoria here, but go and dritiU her health in beer.” Her Bathing- Dress. From the Judge. ’Twas not in love with her I fell, Although I know I liked her well And thought her costumes very swell, And bounds stunning. 'Twas that delicious bathing dress That wrapped her form in fond caress. And clung about her loveliness With careful cunning! ’Twas such a charming, clue affair, With satin knottiugs here and there, And glimpses swift of laces rare, In damp confusion: A symphony in bright maroon, Begun so slow, and stopped so soon, A sweet 6ong to a perfect tune— A dream illusion. Her white arms gleamed beneath the lace. Her wind-tossed curls blew ’round her face, While folded in the foam’s embrace She looked upon me. Her laughing eyes were shining bright, Her dimpled hands were flashing white, And, mid the breakers left and right, She smiled and won me! I helped her o’er the shell-strewn sand. Across the yielding, wave-fiecked strand, And pressed her dripping dimpled hand; She tried to scold me! An effort bold at last 1 made. While sea-foam on her tresses played— -1 whispered, “Is it tailor made?” And so she told me! A Ride Down a Flume. From the Chico {Cal.) Enterprise. A. G. Mason left the mills at 12 o'clock yester day on a raft in the flume for a ride to Chico He expected to make the trip in three and a half hours, but met with several thrilling mishaps that delayed him until after dark and effectually cured him for a ratt ride to Chico. The ride for the first fifteen miles was novel and grand— scenery as magnificent as any in the Sierra Ne vadan But when the raft struck the deep canons ami mountain gorges, with the flume stretched along looking like a silvery thread from the bottom, the ride began to take on dan gers, for the lumber that had been shipned in the morning was here met with, and the real trouble commenced. In one of the deep cuts the V-box ran on to a board, up-ending the ratt and throwing Bert high in the air. In falling he grasped a small board naile 1 to the flume and hung suspended fifty feet from the bottom of the canon. Bert, having tot one ami. found himself in a danger ous position, and, to add to his horror, the board he was hanging to began to break. About twenty feet below him was a small platform between the joists, so, just ns the board gave way, Bert swung out, let go his hold aud dropped. He struck tin* platform, but the rebound threw him thirty feet to the bottom of the canon, striking on his shoulder and the side of his face. He was stunned for a moment, but when he cmne to he hurried down the flume and caught the raft. When twelve miles from Chico he was again thrown, but this time be struck in tne flume, with a narrow escape from drowning. Ilis hat was lost and he was wet through As soon as he got out Bert concluded that he did not want any more raft riding, and walked the re maining twelve miles to town, arriving at 7:30 o’clock. The Conductor Was a Bad Man. From the Pittsburg Commercial Gazette. Three toughs and a big Newfoundland dog were knocked out by a Fifth avenue street car driver yesterday in less time than it took Sulli van to whip Baddy Ryan. The only spec tators were are a car full of w mien, who were too badly scared to be interested iu the tight. At the foot of Soho street the rowdies stopped the car and wanted to pile themselves and the dog on the front platform, but the driver said that there was not room for so many beasts there, and refused to permit the dog to stav unless 10c. was paid for iis fare. .Just then the conductor said something from the rear end of the car that the fellows did not like, whereupon they and the Newfoundland ,dog got off and went around to the rear platform to talk busi ness with him. lie was ready for them. •'You can't put that dog in this car at any price." said the conductor. "Wliat der yer soy, Kouuy?" said the burliest nifiian, eooly getting upon the car anil drag ging the dog after him, while the other two toughs got on the other step. The conductor quietly csmntod three for b!v objectionable pas sengers to get off. They glared and swore at him. Then lie hit, the biggest, one in t te neck with Ids left flat, and that individual turned two somersaults and alighted on the broad of liis back on the pavement Then the second tough got it in the mouth, and he tumbled off. Tue third one fell off from fright, and the dog was kicked off. Then the car moved on the same as usual, and the conductor remarked to the old lady silting in the rear *of the car that the day wa rather hot for September weather, aud hoped that the mosquitoes would soon be killed by the frost. Success of the Fair Insured. From the Ihnghamton fiepubliran. President of Association- I think our agricul tural fair will is* an iinpnssvletited success this year The out look was never so favorable. Horny bunded Yeoman But com Is lilt by the frost, wheat struck by the blight, there ain't no punktiiK, no potatoes to spe ic of, sps*k is diseased and everylssly Is clean discouraged .My dear air. you don't understand the sitna lion These [l ilies can never interfere vt Ith the success of an agricultural fair "Welds* not, 'Kipdre 'nicy used to thirty years ago, howsoinever " Ah. y**,; a slow age that, old fellow Hut we know u trick worth two of our grandfathers'. tfl I leil you the fair will be an unbounded Mi* ttHh *' "Is feme you know, of courts; but w lust's to make ft sor‘ I have just received notice that throe candl 'late, fin 1 Governor wN Is* there never* i soilt dates for the Assembly, four with Prestdenthtl lew* in tdeir hats, thirteen would Is* t ’*argrwss Lieu I* *, le> a couple of doaen mini Me rigger s so sj iny of faro dealers, e**sp fshirs sub wheels irf fortune without and. Oh. Ith te.und to tie a glorious so* xwas " ITEMS OP INTEREST. One of Germany's famoip military hands will soon make a tour of Englaid. Mrs. John W. Mackay is having a cloak made from the breasts of birds of paradise. These cost 30 shillings each, and a nut 500 birds will be necessary. A statue of the Swiss naturalist De Saussure, who was the first to ascend Mont Blanc, was un veiled at Chamouuix on Aug. 43, the 100th anni vei-sary of that event. Two women at Beaver Creek, Ore., became incensed at a neighbor and caught his two dogs and saturated thorn with coal oil and then set the oil on fire, literally roasting them alive. James Murphy, of Louisville, Ky., was ar rested the other day for an offense that is sel dom committed, even by the most depraved— that of 1 (eating his wife with his wooden leg. The Japanese have a legend that fish are the embodiment of the souls of naval officers, and thp African negroes believe that magicians as sume the sbaix! of fish and come to their nets to work evil. Last year Warsaw University contained 1,110 students. 174 of these beiug Jews. This year there are 1,450 students, tut the recent law re duces the number of Jews to 10 per cent, of the totAi, or 145. The libretto of Auber’s opera, “La Reine d’un Sour,’’ which is no longer performed, has within the last few years been appropriated by three other operatic composers, Ignaz. Brail, Kremser and Forster. Dexter IVilcox, of Union City, Mich., owns a cucumber vine that Ls sixty-five feet long, bears several cucumbers from three to four and a half feet long, and doesn’t seem to be half through growing yet. Strkwberhies are said to be particularly wholesome as a corrective of the condition pro duced by malarial disease. The white of an egg contains as much food as twelve pounds of strawberries. The Suez canal cost less than $100,000,000. Two hundred and seventy-five millions of dol lars has been expended upon the Panama canal, and the prospect is that the project will have to be abandoned. The bouse in which Payne attempted to mur der Secretary Seward at the time of Lincoln's assassination Ls now offered for sale It has long been used us the headquarters of the com missary-general. T. E. Rudd was placed under a $2,000 bond at Martin, Tenn., recently, to answer the charge of assaulting Miss Adams. The examination of the accused was held in the opera house, and sc. admission was charged. The first bread was made by the Greeks, and the first windmills by the Saracens. Turnpikes were originated in 1487, the sum of one penny having to be paid for each wagon passing through a certain manor. Gen. George A. Sheridan, who is how making a livelihood lecturing on Col. Ingersoll, once had a bank account which showed S7SO,(XX) of favor able balance. He put $400,000 in Chicago real estate and lost it by the great fire. A farmer near Harrisburg, Pa., raised thirty two watermelons this year and he has had to shoot salt into the legs of *iven different boys to keep the melons at home. His lawyers’ fees and court costs have been $406 up to date. “Joe" Andrews, the San Francisco diamond collector, wears a $15,000 cluster of diamonds on hLs necktie, surrounding a $15,000 opal. He wears a $15,000 single diamond un h:s finger, and in his pocket he carries the finest opal in the world, for which he has refused Sla.Ouo. In the middle of August there were in the eighty hotels of the Swiss Canton of Orisons about 5,500 foreigners, of whom 4,500 were Ger mans, 1.050 Englishmen, 710 Italians, 400 French men. 370 Americans, 240 Austrians and 1(10 in habitants of other continents. The number of Swiss guests was 1,200. A series of revival meetings in Franklin county, Arkansas, have been broken up by a big panther that has taken to prowling in the neighborhood after dark. What put an entire stop to the good work was the finding ofaman's shoe near one of the brute s haunts and a piece of a shirt hanging in the fork of a neighboring tree. While a trainload of excursionists from Los Angeles, Cal., was spending the day at Port Fallona a swordfish, fifteen foot long, ventured within the line of breakers and was thrown up on the sand. Within a few minutes the excur sionists had carved up the big dish with their pocket-knives, and they all carried a supply of swordfish steak back to town with them. According to the Berlin Tagliche Rundschau. bills of fare date from the Diet of Katisboii, in 1541, when the Duke of Brunswick astonished his neighbor at the table. Count Hugo de Mont ■fort. by frequently consulting a long list, on which the cook had enumerated “all tne dishes and viands for the benefit of his Highness, so that be might regulate l.is appetite and save it for the best courses.” The result of the survey and test census of India are that the area of the peninsula of Hin doostan is 1,382,524 square miles and the popu lation 453,891.821. Although immense tracts of country are annually cultivated, according to the most recent survey 10.00.),000 acres of land suitable for cull i vat ion. have not as yet beeu plowed. At the same time 120,000,000 of acres are returned as waste land. According to Mr Holyoke the outlook of the industrial class fifty years ago was as dreary as Siberia. Food was scarce. The English race was thin. Ever girls had an ill-favored look— liecause underfed. In a few years after the re peal of the coni laws every I.OpO.COJ of adult persons in England weighed 12,000 tons heavier than they did before the repeal, and the yonng people had grown ten times comelier than they were. The North Bucks Liberal Brotherhood has be gun the attempt of co-operative farming. Sev enty-two acres belonging to Kir Harry Verney, have been leased at lit shillings per acre, and, after being cut up into small lots, sold at auc tion to the members, the excess of price over 19 shillings to go to the general fund. Each ten ant farms his own lot, and the co-operative fea ture consists in the ownership in common of implements, horses, barns, aud thrashing-floors. German papers relate, that the singer, Marie Fullo, who recently died in St. Petersburg, left diamonds valued at 1-jO.OOO f. to the eld st son of the Czar. She stated in her wilt that she selected him because she had received Ihe diamonds from a near relative of his. and knew of no one better entitled to them than tie heir presumptive of the Russian Crown. It is said that the young Grand Duke Nicholas intends to turn the diamonds over to several religious institutions. The other evening George Trumpler's little boy at Little Rock. Ark., less than 3 years of age, went to his mother and asked her if he could kill a biig that was out in the hall. Mrs. Triimpler, supposing the bug to boa roach, gave the little man permission to kill it. He ran out, picked up some rocks, and did kill it, but his mother was horrifled when the little hero walked iu holding by the leg a huge taran tula: Before getting the rocks the child had several t imes picked the spider up and thrown it against the floor. The disaster of the Opera Comtque and the recent appalling calamity at Exeter, have awakened the authorities throughout Italy to the necessity of providing for the safety of the theatre-going public. At (tenon the Prefect or dered some alterations to be at once executed iu the two principal theatre*, and two others wen* Hosed The authorities at Florence have issued an order that within a year all theatres must be illuminated by electric light. At Bo logna, Paduu, and other places, similar precau tions have been taken. They are digging for foundations of the ele vated railroad on the made ground at the foot of Fulton street. Brooklyn. Just in front of the Annex ferry house is a hole which has his toricnl interest At a depth of two feet a brick pavement was reached, resting immediately u|ioii a layer of cobble-stones. This was the grade of Fulton ntreet at that point twenty three years ago. when turn table, were used bo I reverse the street curs. Four feet below the j surface is a pavement of rough round stones, ) /ui l Inin wHh iii iiM* fifty ytNirs when the <>|<i l mump Urn taftltetl Hi,,re. Kiftlit fwt down In d W|; black Mtrafum. niiowfutf the hitch water I mark of the old lauding used iu colonial times. Peter ne Ynmo served on the jury that eon- I vl‘‘l***l the County ('oininlHElmiers In Chicago a ; tew Week* ago. Before he was drawn to serve on this Jury In* wan s lorekee|**r In one of the dims, m Bolin,n Aft -r the (rial he found mi other man in Ins old place si the shop*, n d lie was assigned to a less lucrative place ||e „■>. , In* has been shifted from on** place to HIM It leer always going lower, until In* ha Uveti coniisdlcij i Pi quit tlie sliolM, and lie luc* asked Htale *, I tunn y Griunell f*, assl-d Into to , inl y I I inetil |MI Vising says he does not charge the I i.m.ver# Ml He company with two lug anything Pi *li. with bis pour luck, tail In* says liail 2 ***** <'*l Wm la* nX,great 1 misuse tu not aat mug by voting p. au- 1 uoavtut ibuuouai umn I BAKING POWDER. <fuU WE/gST^s p? 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